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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.



It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.



Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.



Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.



Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.



Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.



With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.



Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.



In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.



The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.



Creativity is discontent translated into arts.



The greatest weariness comes from work not done.



The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.



The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.



A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.








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